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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 354002, member: 2844&quot;]Totally forgot about your thread.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Anyway, I agree with other observations. Definitely European, with a European child. The stem is amber, as you said.</p><p>Probably Central European, the first meerschaum pipeheads were carved in Hungary. Carving also became popular in Austria, Germany and Denmark. Probably elsewhere as well, but those are the countries I remember from a visit to &#039;het Pijpenkabinet&#039;, a Dutch pipe museum. (The things I get up to.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" />)</p><p>Your meerschaum is stained, probably with a vegetable oil, reddish is usually from nut oil. I would leave it as it is.</p><p>Meerschaum is a type of clay, called sepiolite.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may be able to find more on the site of het Pijpenkabinet, they have an English language option, bottom of the page:</p><p><a href="http://www.pijpenkabinet.nl/index-nl.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pijpenkabinet.nl/index-nl.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pijpenkabinet.nl/index-nl.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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